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# Title: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 38; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 38)
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willbeprerailed with, to ditrobe himself at onco of all his old Opinions
and Pretences to Rnomledge and Learnins, Which rith hard Scudr, te
hath all his Time been labourins for, and curn himlel out sarke raked.
in quest a- Treth of nem Notions: Allthe Argumenes can beuled, will be
as little able to prevail, as the Wind did ith the Traveller, to part Wict
his Cloak, Wrhich he held ontr thefalter. To chis ofWrone ypothelis
may be reduced the Errors, that may be occalionedby a true II Pothelis
or rigle Principles, bur not righely understood. There is noching more
tamiliar than this, The Instances oF Men, contendine for ditferent Opi
Bions, Which ther all derire from theintallible Fruch of the Scripture, are
an undeniable Proos of ic. AII that CalI themselves Chriltians, allor the
Text, thac lays, urtaroeise, t0 carry in it the Oblisation ro a very meistur
Duty. Butyet hoir erroncous will one oltheir Practices be, wrtro under-
Standire nochins but the French, take this Rule with one Franstarion eo
De repentez vous, repent; or vith the ottier, faitez Penitence, do
Penance.
8. T2. Thirdlr, Probabilicies, Which cross Mens Appetites, and pre-
vailine Passions, run the sameFate. Let never lo much Probabilier hans
on onc side ot a covetous Mans Realonins, and moner on the other; aud
it is calio to forosee whieh will out Weigh. Parthl Minds, libe Mud.
WalIs, relist the strongest Barteries: and thouoh, perhaps, Cometimes the
Force of a elear Arsument may make lomeimprection, yet ther never-
chelels Cand Airin, Koep out the Fnemy Trurh, char viould captivate, or
dicturb them. Tella Nan, passionatels in Love, that he isgilted; brins
a score of Witnesses oF the Faltood ot his Mistrels, tis ten to one bue
three kind Nords oF hers, MaII invalidate all cheir Teltimonies. Quod
volumus, facile credimus; What suits our Wistes, is forvardly believed, 15,
Tsuppose, what erery one hath more than once experimented: and though
Men cannot alvars openty rain. PaY, Or resist theforce ot manitest Proba-
Diliries, that makre against them; vet rield ther nocto the Argument.
Not but chat it is the Nature oF the Inderstanding constantr to close
rith the more probable lide, Dut vec a Nan hath a Porerro suspend and
reltram its lnquiries, and noc perinit a fuil and latisfactory Lxamination,
25 tar as the Matrer in Duection is capable, and will bear it to be made.
Until chatbe done, there Will be alvays thele ruovays left of evadine the
most apparent Probabilities.
8. F3. First, Fhat thC ArgumenEs BeinS (as For the most part they are)
broushe in Nords, there may be a Fallacy latent in themiand the Consequen-
ces Deins, perhaps, mans in Train, they may be lome ot them incoherent.
There be verr Per Discourses, are (0 Mort, clear and conlictent, to which
most Nen may not, rith satisfaction enoush to chemlelres, raise this
doube; and From irhrole conviction thes may not, without reproach of
Dilnsenuier or Inrealonablenels, set themselres trec with the old Replr.
Non persuadebis, etiam si persuaseris; thouzh l cannot ansiver, L will
not vield.
5. F4. Secondly. Manisest Probabilities mar be eraded, andthe APent wich.
held uxon this Suggeltion, That Lknou nor yet al that may be said on the
contrary side; and therefore though he bebeaten, tis noc necellarr ho
Aiould vield, not knowino ehat Forces there are in relerve behind. This
is a retuse asainst Conviction (0 open and (0 wide, that it is hard to de-
termine, When a Mlan is quite out of the Verge of it.
5. 25. Buc vet chere is fome end oF it, and a Man havins caretully en-
quired into all the prounds. of Probabilier and Unlihelinels; done his ut-
mo ro intorm himsels in all Parriculars Pairly; and cast up the wtiole
Sum